Intact spatial learning in both young and aged rats following selective removal of hippocampal cholinergic input

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 460-467

  Baxter, Mark G ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHERMIA; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029949494     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.3.460     Document Type: Article

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